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Japanese degree program from days gone by... - john555 - 2015-07-10
I came across this interesting description of the Japanese degree program at the University of London as it supposedly was in the '60's, from an issue of "The East-West Review (1966)." It certainly sounds ambitious. It says that in most cases students had no prior knowledge of the language. It claims that in the second year of study students were expected to read a complete novel in Japanese(!). I wonder how many people successfully completed this program. The article notes that "the number of students working for the BA degree is very small, twelve in all at the present time."
The article notes that the student "also has to speak and understand speech well enough for ordinary purposes, but it is felt to be uneconomical to develop a high degree of fluency in class room time, and the aim is rather to provide him with a basic ability which he is encouraged to develop with social contact with Japanese outside the School and, where possible, a visit to Japan during his course."
https://books.google.ca/books?id=wB9pAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA296&dq=dunn%20yanada%20teach%20yourself%20japanese&pg=PA296#v=onepage&q=dunn%20yanada%20teach%20yourself%20japanese&f=false
Japanese degree program from days gone by... - anotherjohn - 2015-07-10
A mere £169.60 for the e-book? They're practically giving it away.
Japanese degree program from days gone by... - yudantaiteki - 2015-07-10
Just because the program directors claimed the students could read a novel in Japanese doesn't mean they actually did. Supposedly in the Chinese class I took we could read newspapers, but what that meant was "reading" articles with the help of a vocab list that included nearly every word in the article.
Japanese degree program from days gone by... - ktcgx - 2015-07-10
On the other hand, maybe they really could. I used to know a guy whose university programme in Japanese required them to learn 50 kanji a week... that's the jouyou set in less than 2 years. And that was about 7-8 years ago.
Japanese degree program from days gone by... - Zgarbas - 2015-07-10
Not as ambitious as the mext undergrad programme, where people go from 0 to advanced (in their field. My friend can understand quantum chemistry in Japanese but he has trouble talking about what food he likes) in one year. It can be done, it just requires a lot of dedication and hard work, good guidance, a competitive environment, and the resources.
Japanese degree program from days gone by... - buonaparte - 2015-07-11
yudantaiteki Wrote:Just because the program directors claimed the students could read a novelThey didn't play computer games.